The trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, has resumed in Los Angeles, following an emotional opening a day earlier that included images of the King of Pop’s lifeless body and a shocking audio recording of his slurred and alm…

Canadian writers Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt have earned nominations for the Writers’ Trust of Canada fiction prize, which puts them in the running for three top fiction prizes including the Giller Prize and the Man Booker Prize.

Two years after police in Zurich led Roman Polanski away to prison, the Oscar-winning director returned to a very different reception in the city, where he picked up a cinematic award for lifetime achievement on Tuesday.